The three politicians from New Zealand's Te Pāti Māori party performed the haka when asked if they supported a controversial ...

It's just happened in Parliament.Newshub. Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi has been suspended from Parliament for a day over comments he made last week that could breach name suppression.

New Zealand’s Parliament on Thursday suspended three Māori lawmakers for staging a protest that included performing the haka, a traditional Māori dance, in opposition to a controversial bill. Rawiri ...

In an unprecedented move that has sparked a remarkable debate on parliamentary decorum and free expression, New Zealand’s Parliament suspended three lawmakers from the Māori Party for performing a ...

New Zealand's parliament agreed on historically lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous lawmakers who last year performed a ...

New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori ...

The harsh penalty was handed down to three members of the opposition who said they were voicing their community’s displeasure with proposed legislation.

The haka drew global headlines and provoked months of fraught debate among lawmakers about what the consequences for the lawmakers' actions should be.

Packer, Rawiri Waititi, and Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke — have been given the strongest punishment ever seen in New Zealand’s ...